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Across Canada

Anti-Cruise MPs’
funds cancelled

OTTAWA — Jeanne Sauve, a Liberal who holds the ‘‘non-
party’’ job of Speaker of the House of Commons, has frozen the
$63,000 budget of Parliamentarians for World Order, an all-party
committee which is opposed to Cruise missile testing in Canada.
The group of 85 MPs and 20 senators is also being denied the use
of Commons staff.

Warren Allmand (Lib., Notre-Dame-de-Grace — Lachine
East) said, March 15: ‘‘We’ve been cut off, de-listed, excom-
municated. They said we were only a lobby or pressure group.”’

Sauve said the recommendation came from the Inter-Parlia-
mentary Advisory Council, which advises on funding for com-
mittees.

international Women’s Day
celebrated in Regina

REGINA — International Women’s Day was marked here
with a march of about 300 people — men and women — and
children. The day, which formally falls on March 8, is celebrated
world-wide, and has been marked this year over a period of a
week by various events in centres across Canada.

Economic meet on hold
to hear fed Budget

OTTAWA — The prime minister and provincial premiers ag-
reed to postpone their economic summit at least until June,
probably until fall, in deference to the federal budget, expected in
mid-Apnil. At a dinner meeting squeezed between sessions of the
constitutional conference to confer with Native peoples, nettled
premiers bowed to Trudeau’s insistence that the Budget is virtu-
ally complete, and presumably would not be influenced by their
views.

Fred Rose, victim of
_ Cold war, dies at 76

Fred Rose, the former Member of
Parliament for Montreal-Cartier,
representing the Labor Progressive
Party, a long-time Canadian Com-
munist activist, has died in Warsaw
at the age of 76. Rose returned to his
native Poland with his wife after
serving a four-year jail sentence re-
sulting from the spy-scare campaign
by leading reactionary and police
circles in Canada in the late 40s. In
1957 the Canadian government re-
voked his citizenship and he was re-
fused permission from then on to
visit his family in Canada.

' The book, Canada’s Party of :
Socialism, History of the Commu- :
nist Party of Canada 1921-1976 offers a brief insight into the work and
activities of Fred Rose.

Commenting on allegations in 1946 by the notorious U.S. columnist
Drew Person regarding a Soviet spy ring in Canada, and the appoint-
ment of a Royal Commission under R. Taschereau and R.L. Kellock to
““investigate’’, it says:

“The real purpose of the Royal Commission was to poison the
atmosphere of friendly relations between Canada and the USSR, built
up during the anti-fascist war, open up the cold war internationally and
justify the start of a vicious campaign of propaganda and persecution of
Communists and other progressive and peace forces. With the help of
the Taschereau-Kellock Commission, the bourgeois mass media or-
chestrated a ‘spy’ scare which would allow reactionary monopoly
circles to proceed with plans to ‘‘roll back”’ socialism and reassert their
domination of the world.”

The Commission admitted: ‘‘... we had no hesitation in deciding
that all evidence available, direct, hearsay, and secondary, should be
considered ... if this were not done, it was doubtful whether the
purpose of the Commission could be achieved.’’

Twenty Canadians were arrested and held incommunicado for a
month. Fred Rose was one of these. Bearing out the Commission’s
fears, the ‘‘documents’’ of Soviet deserter Igo Gouzenko proved use-
less as legal evidence, and nine of those accused were acquitted.

The History of the CPC points out: ‘‘Canana’s political police had a
special interest in doing what Fred Rose called ‘a job on me’ because,
in speeches, articles and pamphlets, he had exposed their profoundly
anti-democratic practices. In the late 1930s, for example, he wrote a
pamphlet entitled Spying on Labor in which he proved that the RCMP
made use of espionage and informers to disrupt the labor movement.
Fred Rose was an obstacle to the unrestricted anti-labor, anti-commu-
nist activities of the RCMP — he had to be removed.”’

Fred Rose was elected to federal parliament in the 1943 by-election
and re-elected in the general election of 1945.

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—MARCH 25, 1983—Page 8

__. CANADA

Palestinian, Canadian women
Share goals of peace, rights —

ISSAM ABDUL HADI

TORONTO — One of the
major events of International
Women’s Day here, was
sponsored by the Congress of
Canadian Women, March 13,
featuring a leading woman trade
unionist, an international
women’s spokesperson, cultural
performances, a viewing of If
You Love this Planet, and liter-
ature, posters, handicrafts and
refreshments from far and wide.
The crowd packed Bloor Street’s
Trinity Church.

Grace Hartman, president of
the Canadian Union of Public
Employees (CUPE), said that this
year, ‘‘despite the economic de-
pression, despite the \increasing
high unemployment among wo-
men, despite the increasing battle
of women who are forced to live
on welfare, despite the cutbacks
in social areas like daycare, hospi-
tal services and pensions — cut-
backs that have a disproportion-
ate impact on women — despite
all of this, International Women’s
Day celebrations are reaching
more women — unionized and
non-unionized — whether we
work in a household or in the
labor force — Black or white or
any other color, old or young —
more are turning out this year to
events like this to share our
successes and our struggles and
to celebrate the shattering of the
timeless barrier which has kept us
isolated and oppressed for so
long.”’

Issam Abdul Hadi, president of
the General Union of Palestinian
Women, told the sympathetic
audience: ‘“‘We Palestinians are
for peace. We want, by peaceful
means, to put an end to the suffer-
ing of our people under occupa-
tion and outside Palestine.’

While understanding the fight
of women, for daycare centres,
for provisions for working
mothers and for other rights of
women here, she said that the role
of Palestinian women is more
fundamental.

‘*As we see our people brutal-
ized, dehumanized, we stand for
peace and our fight is for our
human rights, our civil rights,”’
she said.

The chairperson of the meet-
ing, Mitzi Concha, of the Office of
Solidarity with the People of

TRIBUNE PHOTO — JAMES LEECH

Chile, introduced, in all, five reso-
lutions, urging Canadian
Government action and proclaim-
ing solidarity of the Women’s Day
meeting.

The meeting, apparently
unanimously, agreed to call upon
Ottawa to ‘‘annul the umbrella
agreement which allows arms
tests on Canadian soil; refuse to
allow the Cruise missile to be
tested on Canadian soil; comply
with the wishes of the majority of
Canadians and declare Canada a
nuclear weapons-free zone; reject
any proposals to use armed forces
recruitment as a solution to youth
unemployment; and cut the mili-
tary budget by 50%.”’ ~

A second resolution urged the
Canadian Government to provide
funds for job creation, enforce
equal pay for work of equal value;
end wage controls, and restore
free, collective bargaining in the
public sector.

Other resolutions proclaimed
solidarity with women of El Sal-
vador, Palestine, Lebanon, South
Africa, Ireland, and Nicaragua,
“‘who are struggling for national
independence, social progress
and the advancement of women’’;
and support for Maria Cecilia
Rodriguez Ayara ‘‘who was ar-
rested in the Santiago airport
(Chile) on her way from Chile to
Spain to attend a meeting of the
Federation of Relatives of Dis-
appeared Prisoners.

Unequal Treatment

Grace Hartman charged that
while progress had been made in
some areas such as maternity
leave, divorce, and marital prop-
erty law, as well as legislation to
protect against some sex dis-
crimination, women still face un-
equal treatment. ;

‘*Women are not being trained
for a move into non-traditional job
areas in any great numbers,”’ she
said. ‘“‘And the jobs we do have
access to are rapidly being elimi-
nated or turned into part time
work as the result of technological
change.”’

About 80% of women are still
concentrated in clerical work,
nursing, teaching, and small
manufacturing, she said. The jobs
are characterized by low pay, lit-
tle or no occupational mobility,
and a high degree of employer
control.

GRACE HARTMAN

Hartman suggested an in
mediate focus on the right 10?
job, on resisting and defeatil
wages controls, on improv j
pensions, daycare, legislation fo
equal pay for work of equal value
and full job security, as WEY”
extended and fully paid retral
possibilities’’ for women who? :
jobs are lost to technology-

Fought to Liberate Palestin®

The Palestinian guest thanke
the Congress of Canadian WO it
for the invitation she and a %
league, Intisar el Wazir, gene’
secretary of the Union of Palesti” )
ian Women, had accepted. The)
followed different itineraries ©
Canada.

‘‘We express our solidatil!
with all our sisters who are fig E:
ing against imperialism, a
Zionism, against colonialism 7
neo-colonialism everywhere io
the world,” Hadi said, beca¥®
these are the enemies of peac®

Giving a brief historical ske@
of the Palestinians, she said tt
Moslems, Christians and in
had lived in peace for hundreds
years. . a

She spoke bitterly of recell
events in Lebanon where, 11 ©
south, refugee camps had bee”
bulldozed to the ground, whet,
the horror of the massacres _
families in Sabra and Sha”
Palestinian camps was carried 0?
after Reagan put pressure %
U.N. peacekeeping forces to Pr
out ahead of schedule.

Finally, she spoke of Reaga”’
Jordanian option. ‘We Pales
nians fought in order to libe ig
Palestine,’ she declared, not
order to accept any such ™ f
sures’... we have had that feé f
ing of being refugees for all "be
lives, and what is offered by ¢
imperialists is not what we are
fighting to achieve.”’ :

She pointed out that Reag#
had excluded the PLO from yi
plans. ‘‘It is not enough,’’ Ha®”
said, ‘“‘to lay out the future of th”
Palestinian people without tak¥™
into account the wishes and a!
of the Palestinian people’’; s
people who choose the PLO ®
their representative.

“The Canadian Governme?
should recognize the PLO,” she
said, as a contribution to the
cause of peace in the Middle East

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